Monthly Archives: November 2023

The Woman in Me – Britney Spears

After 13 years stifled and gagged by a conservatorship, Britney Spears was now free to tell her own story; going right back to the beginning and blowing the lid off everything you think you know about her.

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The Bone Hacker – Kathy Reichs

After an investigation into a man suspected to have been struck by lightning and fallen from a bridge leads to a connection to the Turks and Caicos Islands, Temperance Brennan finds herself embroiled in a much bigger case. Male tourists have been going missing on the island for years with the Government keen to avoid a scandal and cover it up but now their bodies have been discovered, each with their left hands removed and Brennan is called upon to assist with the recovery of the bodies and the investigation but is there more to this than meets the eye?

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I’m A Fan – Sheena Patel

“I’m A Fan” tells the story of the relationship between the unnamed narrator and “the man I want to be with” as well as her obsession with another woman that this man is also having a relationship with, “the woman I’m obsessed with” as well as a commentary on social media, racism and the patriarchy.

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The Regulators – Stephen King

In the small town of Wentworth, Ohio, everything seems to be normal. The Carver children argue over sweets, the local newspaper boy, Cary Ripton, is out on his round and writer, Johnny Marinville, is minding his own business doing some gardening. Nobody notices the strange red van idling just up the hill and even if they had, would they have ever realised the horrors that were to come?

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Desperation – Stephen King

Something strange is going on in the small Nevada town of Desperation. Once a thriving mining community, it is now abandoned apart from a solitary Police Officer who patrols the local highways. There is something sinister at work here but what can a vacationing family, a writer attempting a cross country journey, his support truck driver and the young hitch hiker he has picked up and a couple driving a relative’s car back to the City do about it?

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